Build system idea

On 2008 Aug 28, at 22:00, Sterling Clover wrote:
> We do have, although not with easy access, an additional declarative
> layer "built in" 90% of the time as configuration as type signature.
Sure? I think it's easier than you think: someone's already written
code to extract the information from .hi files (and indeed ghc will
dump it for you: ghc --dump-iface foo.hi). In theory there could be
a master dictionary of these hosted on hackage, collected from each
package's own dictionary, and a given package's dependencies could be
computed with high accuracy from it.
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